Article: A fashion for gender bending

Suzy Menkes
International Herald Tribune
04-15-2004
Imagine a sleek bar in downtown Manhattan, as four friends meet up. The first young woman checks her watch: Chanel's bold J12 Chronograph, in icy white ceramic.Her partner is wearing a classic Cartier Pasha as his sporty weekend timepiece (although he secretly lusts after the ''iced'' watch, encrusted with diamonds that the rapper entrepreneur Puff Daddy wears with his track suit). Their friends wear respectively the quietly elegant Dressage watch from Hermes in platinum with a crocodile strap; and Louis Vuitton's Tambour, with its vivid monogram logo pattern strap and face set with emeralds, sapphires, ruby and diamond and the playful ...

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